Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Moreover, from without / When oft the same society of forms / In the same order have approach'd his mind, / He deigns no more their steps with curious heed / To trace; no more their features or their garb / He now examines; but of them and their / Condition, as with some diviner's tongue, / Affi...Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24929
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24929"But from what name, what favorable sign, / What heavenly auspice, rather shall i date / My perilous excursion, than from truth, / That nearest inmate of the human soul; / Estrang'd from whom, the countenance divine / Of man disfigur'd and dishonor'd sinks / Among inferior things?"Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24926
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24926"These the part / Perform of eager monitors, and goad / The soul more sharply than with points of steel, / Her enemies to shun or to resist."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14465
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14465"On the ground / I fix'd my eyes; till from his airy couch / He stoop'd sublime, and touching with his hand / My dazling forehead, Raise thy sight, he cry'd / And let thy sense convince thy erring tongue."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14431
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14431"Where virtue, rising from the awful depth / Of truth's mysterious bosom, doth forsake / The unadorn'd condition of her birth; / And dress'd by fancy in ten thousand hues, / Assumes a various feature, to attract, / With charms responsive to each gazer's eye, / The hearts of men."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14419
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14419"But beyond / This energy of truth, whose dictates bind / Assenting reason, the benignant sire, / To deck the honour'd paths of just and good, / Has added bright imagination's rays."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14418
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14418"Then to the secrets of the working mind /
Attentive turn; from dim oblivion call / Her fleet, ideal band; and bid them, go!"Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14416
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14416"Then the inexpressive strain / Diffuses its inchantment: fancy dreams / Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves, / And vales of bliss: the intellectual power / Bends from his awful throne a wondering ear, / And smiles: the passions, gently sooth'd away, / Sink to divine repose, and love and joy /...Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14404
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14404"[T]hus pale revenge / Unsheaths her murderous dagger; and the hands / Of lust and rapine, with unholy arts, / Watch to o'erturn the barrier of the laws / That keeps them from their prey: thus all the plagues / The wicked bear, or o'er the trembling scene / The tragic muse discloses, under shapes...Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14393
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14393"By these mysterious ties the busy power / Of memory her ideal train preserves / Intire; or when they would elude her watch, / Reclaims their fleeting footsteps from the waste / Of dark oblivion."Work: The Pleasures of Imaginationhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/14387
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